RISC-V Day Tokyo 2020 Presenter Contributor BIOs | RISC-V 協会

In March 2020, RISC-V International was incorporated in Switzerland based on no one country, company, government, or event. This move is reflective of community investing in RISC-V for the next 50+ years.

Calista Redmond is the CEO of RISC-V International with a mission to expand and engage RISC-V stakeholders, compel industry adoption, and increase visibility and opportunity for RISC-V within and beyond RISC-V International. Prior to RISC-V International, Calista held a variety of roles at IBM, including Vice President of IBM Z Ecosystem where she led strategic relationships across software vendors, system integrators, business partners, developer communities, and broader engagement across the industry. Focus areas included execution of commercialization strategies, technical and business support for partners, and matchmaker to opportunities across the IBM Z and LinuxOne community. Calista’s background includes building and leading strategic business models within IBM’s Systems Group through open source initiatives including OpenPOWER, OpenDaylight, and Open Mainframe Project. While at IBM, she also drove numerous acquisition and divestiture missions, and several strategic alliances. Prior to IBM, she was an entrepreneur in four successful start-ups in the IT industry. Calista holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.

Esperanto Technologies: Esperanto delivers high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions, the compelling choice for the most demanding AI / ML / DL applications. Our founding team, with many decades of processor design and architecture experience, is dedicated to delivering solutions to help drive future computing innovation. The changing, computationally intensive, workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, without the baggage of existing legacy architectures. Esperanto leverages the simple, elegant, open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to deliver flexibility, scalability, performance and energy-efficiency advantages.

Eiji Kasahara Eiji is a Sr. CPU Architect for Esperanto‘s SOC(Supercomputer on Chip). His recent RISC-V association’s achievements include Organizer and Program Committee, the planning of RISC-V related translation books, and 2017 and 2018 speaker. Eiji is also famous for his role as an architect of PlayStation3’s Cell Broadband Engine (CELL/BE). Eiji was responsible for development of CELL/B.E design, power-performance, semiconductor process technologies in 90nm, 65nm, and 45nm generation SOI process technologies to reduce cost and power as Deputy of STI(Sony-Toshiba-IBM) Design Center in Austin, Texas. Before joining Sony Corporation, Eiji developed NEC SX-5 supercomputer and NEC ACOS4 mainframe computers in Japan.

KAMAKE no SUSUME Corp. offers event programming service including computer programming and gizmo-building classes for children and working adults, human resource activation events and training for local communities and companies, promotion of STEM education in collaboration with educational institutions and companies, and enriches people’s lives.

Takahiro Kitayama was born in Osaka, and completed the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, and joined Renesas Electronics Corporation in 2013. In 2014, he started with volunteer engineers on holidays. He founded “KAMAKE no SUSUME Corp.” in December 2017.

Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Information Engineering: Keio University Amano Lab researches new computer architecture in Post-Moore Age. As semiconductor scalings are stopping, it’s time to create new computers with special purpose, reduced power, and dynamic structure. His team is not only conducting simulation but also creating actual LSI chip and board, system construction and verification.

Prof. Hideharu Amano received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Keio University. He was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University from 1989-1990. Now, he is a professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University. Hideharu Amano started research on computer architecture under the professor Hideo Aiso, Department of Electrical Engineering, and shared memory, cache, switch chip, multiprocessor, reconfigurable system, massively parallel system, router chip, multi-context device, power saving Reconfigurable accelerator, ultra-low power processor, consistent architecture research. It is known for its approach to developing and evaluating real systems to demonstrate ideas. In addition to translating Hennessy Patterson’s “quantitative approach”, he has held numerous academic committee positions and positions.

IAR Systems: We are dedicated to provide superior technology and services, enabling our customers to create the products of today and the innovations of tomorrow. Our journey started in 1983 in Uppsala, Sweden, with the engineer Anders Rundgren and his launch of the world’s first C compiler for the 8051 microcontroller architecture. Since then, our solutions have ensured quality, reliability and efficiency in the development of millions of products built on embedded systems all over world. Today, over 150,000 developers are using our software.Throughout the years, we have evolved and fine-tuned our technology to stay ahead of competition and always serve our customers in the best way we can. We have friends at all major suppliers in our industry, enabling great knowledge sharing and powerful technology innovation worldwide.

Shawn Prestridge has served as IAR System’s Senior Field Applications Engineer since 2008. Shawn has worked in the software industry since 1993 and prior to joining IAR Systems he held the position of Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer with Texas Instruments as well as doing Embedded Development as the owner of Ministry of Software. Shawn’s research interests are primarily focused in Cryptology and he specializes in Large Number Theory, Quantum Cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Number Field Sieve Computing and Communication Encryption. Shawn’s degree work includes a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Software Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering specializing in Quantum Cryptography, all with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

SiFive Leadership RISC‑V inventors and industry veterans.The inventors of RISC‑V joined forces with silicon experts bringing a new approach to semiconductors together with decades of industry experience, hundreds of tapeouts and millions of chips shipped

Yunsup Lee is SiFive’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder. Yunsup received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he co-designed the RISC‑V ISA and the first RISC-V microprocessors with Andrew Waterman, and led the development of the Hwacha decoupled vector-fetch extension. Yunsup also holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a BS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

About Microchips FPGA Business Unit :Microchips FPGA business unit newest SoC FPGA is based on a 5 core RISC-V processor subsystem. Microchip was one of the founding members of the RISC-V foundation and is actively engaged in building out an ecosystem for PolarFire SoC and for all RISC-V users.

Presentation outline: A brief overview of PolarFire SoC followed by an update on the MI-V RISC-V ecosystem along with where to go to buy kits, download tools and watch training videos.

Tim Morin is currently a Technical Fellow at Microchip in the FPGA Business Unit. Tim has over 30 years of experience in Marketing and Engineering within the Semiconductor and Defense industries. Over the course of his career Tim held numerous engineering and marketing positions at Texas Instruments Defense Electronics Group, Atmel Corporation, Actel Corporation, Microsemi Corporation and now Microchip Corporation where he is responsible for defining and bringing new products to market for the FPGA Business Unit.

Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association (JASA)/ AXE,Inc.:The purposes of the Association are to contribute to healthy development of Japanese industries and improvement of national life. These purposes are achieved by improving embedded systems technology, raising users’ convenience through standardization of applied microelectronics technology, protection of rights, and investigation research, etc., for the embedded systems industry (development, manufacturing, and sale of product using microelectronics technology, and system using such product). Established :August 7, 1986

Shozo Takeoka: In 1977, Developed logical inference AI playing “Tic Tac Toe game”. In middle 1980s, Developed server-client Kanji conversion system “Wnn”
and Temporal Logic Prolog interpreter. In 1990, Developed Massively Parallel Computer”SM-1″ at Toyohashi Univ. of Technology. In 1992, Established AXE. 2017 Obtained a patent “Acceleration of Logical Inference AI by Machine Learning AI”

ITaccess Co., Ltd.sells upstream software, RTOS, SMB, etc., focusing on group application technology / technical release sales. Became a distributor of AdaCore from 2013, and introduced Ada / C language compilation, SPARK format sufficient, QGen software-based software software, etc.

Nobuo Fukutoku is in charge of AdaCore products at IT Access Co., Ltd. AdaCore’s software development tools that support everything from model base to code compilation also support RISC-V, and are engaged in the work of introducing them in Japan, including formal verification. He has more than 30 years of experience in the embedded industry and has work experience in overseas RTOS vendors, JTAG tool vendors, etc.

Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software IP (intellectual property) designed to give its customers an edge in a competitive global technology market. Its graphics, compute, vision & AI, and connectivity technologies enable outstanding PPA (Power, Performance and Area), robust security, fast TTM (Time-to-Market) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their phones, cars, homes, and workplaces.

Kristof Beets is Senior Director of Technical Product Management at Imagination Technologies where he ensures technology development is aligned with strategic partner and market requirements. He has a background in electrical engineering and received a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. Previous responsibilities in his 20-year career at Imagination have included Business Development, Ecosystem Management, Competitive Analysis and in his early days he worked on SDKs and tools for both PC and mobile products as a member of the PowerVR Developer Relations Team.

Key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB) is one of the 7 key laboratories of Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The SIS laboratory offers programs in VLSI/ASIC systems design, Signal & image processing, Intelligent transmitting networks and systems, Knowledge Technology, and Embedded systems.

Duy-Hieu Bui received a Ph.D. degree in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics from University Grenoble Alpes, France (in collaboration with CEA-Leti and VNU-UET) in 2019. He is working as a research engineer at the VNU-key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB), VNU-UET. He previously worked at SISLAB, VNU-UET (2010-2015) on VLSI design for multimedia applications, and at CEA-Leti, MINATEC, France (2015-2017) on low-power security hardware and hardware security. He has been a principal engineer in various projects on low-power hardware design for multimedia, security and artificial intelligence at SISLAB including VENGME, ADEN4IOT, and SCAI. His research interests include hardware/software co-design and verification, embedded systems, low-power solutions for artificial intelligence, VLSI system/circuit designs for information security and hardware security.

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most secure devices in the world since 1981 and is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River is accelerating digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems that demand the highest levels of safety, security, and reliability

Shiro Kiuchi has been involved in OSS and real-time OS technologies or over 20 years, providing expertise and consulting services to a wide range of clients’ projects in the embedded and IoT industries. He is currently in charge of next-gen automotive solutions as a senior engineer at Wind River. He served as the vice president of the Embedded Linux Association, a member of the JASA OSS utilization WG, and a member of the embedded section of the OSS Promotion Forum.

Raymond Tang: Raymond is an engineering director at Esperanto responsible for the company’s agile verification efforts worldwide. He is also responsible for verification methodology and infrastructure. Before Esperanto, Raymond was the design verification director for Soft Machines Inc., managing two generations of successful tape-outs leading to the startup’s successful sale to Intel. Before that, Raymond led multiple CPU projects in other corporations, including Intel, SUN/Oracle, NEC, and Fujitsu.

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Syntacore is a semiconductor IP company specializing in customizable microprocessor cores and tools based on the RISC-V instruction set. Syntacore key competencies are: High-performance and low-power embedded cores and IP, Architectural exploration & workload characterization, ASIP technologies and reconfigurable architectures, and Compiler technologies. Customers chooses Syntacore because: The only CPU IP vendor, focusing solely on the RISC-V ISA, Founding member of the RISC-V foundation since 2015, we specialize in the RISC-V processor IP, One of the first companies to sample commercial RISC-V SCR3-based SoC (taped-out early 2016), One of the first companies to demonstrate multicore SCR5-based RISC-V system running SMP Linux (demonstrated November 2016), All Syntacore IP is fully compatible with the latest versions of the RISC-V specs, and Syntacore provides one-stop customization services

Alexander Redkin is Executive Director and co-founder at Syntacore. Prior to establishing Syntacore in 2015, Alexander had more than 15 years of experience in semiconductor industry in senior engineering and management roles, including more than 12 years at Intel R&D, where he contributed both to the number of research projects and volume semiconductor products development. Alexander’s research interests are future SoC architectures and heterogeneous platforms with specific focus on emerging workloads analysis and acceleration.

AI Chip Design Center (AIDC) is in the Hongo area of the University of Tokyo. For the purpose of assisting small and medium-sized venture businesses to conduct AI chip development, we have started a pilot from October 7, 2019. By registering to this organization, site users can use the standard IP that can be used in the 40nm / 28nm process with the EDA tools and hardware emulators introduced at this site through the design booth inside the site and remote connection from the outside. AI chip development is intended with technology technology for AI chip design engineers, and there is also teaching of the educational curriculum around AIDC.

Kunio Uchiyama, Invited Senior Researcher of AIST in Japan, is currently the head of the AI chip Design Center which is operated as a NEDO project in Japan. He had worked for the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi since 1978 and served as Corporate Officer and Chief Scientist. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IEICE. He has been a member of Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society since 2016.

Imagination Technologies Group plc provides world-leading IP cores. We have over 25 years of experience in designing and licensing market-leading processor solutions for graphics, vision & AI processing, and multi-standard communications that offer strong differentiation compared to competing solutions. Creating a smarter, more connected world that enriches the lives of billions of people, our technologies are instrumental in key segments such as mobile; consumer; automotive; IoT; AR/VR; security and AI.

Robert Owen started in the semiconductor business in 1980 as a Sales Engineer with Texas Instruments (“TI”) UK. He rose to become European Sales Manager for TI’s business with Japanese customers between 1988 and 1994, which included basing a member of his team in Japan and hosting two members of the TI Japan team in Europe. In 1994 he became the first member of the new TI “University Program” focused on the propagation of DSP technology amongst academia. After agreeing to do the job for just 8 months, he defined, built and ran TI’s University Programme in Europe for 17 years! After TI, he had assignments working as a Consultant with Xilinx, Digilent, EnOcean, Microchip, and ARM. Between 2012 and 2018 he built the University Programme of distributor RS Components, and from December 2013 joined IP company Imagination Technologies to build their first University Programme. He won recognition awards for both his work at RS and at Imagination. Many universities are still using the “MIPSfpga” project that he launched in 2015, and it was this project that first brought him to Keio University. After 26 years in this specialised area, he says that he has “made almost every mistake there is to be made”….!

In the new World University Research Rankings 2020, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) ranks second in the world after Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and number one in Europe. DTU scores high in multidisciplinary and collaborativeness. DTU Compute is an academic environment spanning mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering. Interdisciplinary research areas are big data and data science, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), smart and secure societies, smart manufacturing and life sciences.

Martin Schoeberl is an associate professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. His research interests include hard real-time systems, time-predictable computer architecture, and real-time Java. He received a PhD and a Habilitation degree in computer engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. (Based on document published on 10 January 2018).

GigaDevice is a leading fabless company engaged in advanced memory technology and IC solutions. The company was founded in Silicon Valley I n 2004 and currently produces a wide range of SPI NOR Flash, SPI NAND Flash, sensors and MCUs for use in embedded, consumer, and mobile communications applications with more than 1 billion units shipped every year. In 2019, GigaDevice launched the world’s first 32-bit RISC-V based general purpose and in 2020 the GD32VF103, RISC-V MCU, won the international award of hardware product of the year at the Embedded World 2020 in Nuremberg Germany.

Ken Kageyama is in charge of marketing the Japanese market for MCUs and flash memory at GigaDevice. He has been involved in the development, product planning, marketing and sales of semiconductor products such as MCUs, ASICs, IPs, dynamic reconfigurable processors and flash memories.

VLSI Technology Page is established to share the knowledge and experience of the digital integrated circuit design. We create the small projects to investigate and study before publishing them as the open-source. We are focusing on the design and verification by using flexible language such as Verilog, SystemVerilog, SystemC and script languages. “Share to develop together” is our slogan. Now, VLSI Technology page is developing the open-source SoC based on the RISC-V cores. Vanguard (VG) SoC is the first project in our long-term plan.

Quynh Do-ngoc is an RTL design and verification engineer. He is currently evaluating a 32/64-bit RISC-V SoC using an open source CPU core. Quynh has previously worked on 32-bit high-speed and low-power super-scalar micro-processor with L1 and L2 cache memories, BitCoin miner chip with multi-core of SHA256 on FPGA board and numerous project. He has submitted academic papers.

Fifteen years in business and a founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes Technology is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, dual-issue and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 1 billion since 2018. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com

Florian Wohlrab is one of the first RISC-V Ambassadors and Head of Sales for EMEA and Japan at Andes Technology. His mission is to help bring RISC-V towards mainstream and enable others to easily get started within the RISC-V ecosystem. He is fascinated by the open, modular, compact and innovative RISC-V CPU designs. Before joining Andes Technology he worked in industrial PC and IoT fields, holding various technical and business roles within Europe and Asia.

Riken Computational Molecular Design Group aims to simulate biomolecular interactions and to design effective molecular regulators using large-scale computer simulations. The team is designing novel compounds for various target biomolecules by utilizing our computational techniques. By developing exclusive high-performance computers, the team aims to achieve unprecedented long-term MD simulations.

Since 2013, Makoto Tajii has been in his current position of Group Director, System Computational Biology Research Group, RIKEN and Life Modeling Core, Life Systems Research Center . Makoto’s field of study are Computational biology, and Computer architecture. Makoto is a recipient of Gordon Bell Awards: 1995 (Special-Purpose Machine) / 2006 (Peak Performance Honorable Mention) / 2009 (Price Performance).

Shankar Jayaratnam: Shankar is a Senior Tech Lead at Esperanto defining and implementing full-chip SoC validation methodologies. He is currently working on defining and implementing system software firmware architecture for ET’s SoC. Before Esperanto, Shankar was a Senior Tech Lead in an Intel CPU team defining more efficient development strategies for Intel’s future generation CPUs.

Red Hat, Inc. is an American multinational software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. It became a subsidiary of IBM on July 9, 2019. Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss, Red Hat also offers Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and consulting services.Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects. It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses. As of March 2016, Red Hat is the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel version 4.14 after Intel.On October 28, 2018, IBM announced its intent to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion.The acquisition closed on July 9, 2019.

Wei Fu is an embedded/enterprise Linux developer on Linux kernel/driver ,BSP, system porting, CI-loop and testing. Also have some experience on Firmware (U-boot/arm-TF/UEFI/ACPI/GRUB). Currently focusing on Linux distro,like Fedora/RHEL/CentOS on RISC-V and build system. Also interested in IoT, ARM, Bluetooth/BLE, Security/Encryption, Blockchain, AI and OSS projects.

University of Electro-Communication (UEC) has its previous roots in the Technical Institute for Wireless-Communications, founded to train wireless communication engineers in 1918. Today the university focuses on “Diversity Communication, and Innovations” to nurture innovative social leaders. UEC offers fundamental science, applied engineering, physics, material science, life science, optical science, electronics, robotics, mechanical engineering, and media science.

CKRISTIAN DURAN (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and the M.S degree in telecommunications from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, Colombia, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering with the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, and also a Research Assistant with the University of Electro-Comunications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan.

Imagination Technologies Group plc is a British semiconductor and software design company, owned by the Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a private equity fund based in Beijing, China that is beneficially owned by the Chinese government. With its global headquarters in Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom its primary business is in the design of PowerVR mobile graphics processors (GPUs), networking routers (based on MIPS CPUs),[2] and its Pure consumer electronics division. It also supplies radio baseband processing, networking, digital signal processor, video and audio hardware, voice over IP software, cloud computing and silicon and system design services. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired in November 2017 by Canyon Bridge.

Guanyang He graduated in Computer Science from Beijing University and Posts and Telecommunications, China and MSc Data Science at University of Bath, UK. Experienced in financial technologies and project management from his roles at Union Pay, Shanghai. Guanyang has chosen to pursue a marketing placement for his next job, at Imagination University Programme, to experience how technologies are significantly changing business and people’s lives. He is determined to devote himself to spreading positive influence and doing the right to create a prosperous future.

“@msyksphinz” is the author of the blog “FPGA Developer’s Diary” inJapan and researching cutting-edge technology of computer
architecture, especially ecosystem of RISC-V. To keep impartial, he writes a blog based on the results of his own
experiments.

SiFive is the leading provider of market-ready processor core IP and silicon solutions based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Led by a team of seasoned silicon executives and the RISC-V inventors, SiFive helps SoC designers reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized, open-architecture processor cores, and democratizes access to optimized silicon by enabling system designers in all market verticals to build customized RISC-V based semiconductors. With 15 offices worldwide, SiFive has backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, Chengwei, Huami, SK Hynix, Intel Capital, and Western Digital.

Atsushi Ishii has over 10+ year experience as President of Axis Japan Co.Ltd., Verisity Design K.K. & Carbon Design Systems Japan K.K. He is currently the representative in Japan of SiFive,Inc..

develops high-quality, open source hardware designs relevant to silicon devices and FPGAs. By creating an open and collaborative environment, CHIPS Alliance shares resources to lower the cost of development. Companies and individuals can work together to develop open source CPUs, various peripherals, and complex IP blocks. CHIPS Alliance is open to all organizations who are interested in collaborating on open source hardware or software tools to accelerate the creation of more efficient and innovative chip designs.

Michael Gielda is VP Business Development and co-founder of Antmicro, the authors and maintainers of Renode. Antmicro provides custom device and software development services predominantly based on open source, as well participating in efforts such as the RISC-V Foundation, Linux Foundation and Zephyr Project, and developing tools like Renode to improve the quality and interoperability of IoT technologies. With a background in software engineering, computer science and embedded systems, Michael manages Antmicro’s partner and customer relations and open source outreach, and is responsible for finding new ways of connecting technologies and people from various domains to push towards more software-oriented engineering methodologies.

DTS INSIGHT CORPORATION has been started as a member of DTS group, merging with Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation and ART System Co., Ltd. and embedded related business of DTS CORPORATION on April 1th, 2017. Our major business are, System development product in automotive/embedded field, Hardware/Firmware development, Measurement control system in healthcare field, and Commissioned development in various fields, etc. DTS INSIGHT have supported customer’s business as above in each company’s strong field, and will achieve services for the world of IoT continued to evolve further in the future.

Yoshihito Kondo has been working for Sony Corporation since 1990 and has been involved in the development of media processor. Engaged in CMOS image sensor development at Sony LSI Design Inc. from 2012. Joined DTS Insight Co., Ltd. in 2019 and is currently in charge of agency operations for SiFive.

ArchiTek Corp, founded by ex-Panasonic engineers in 2011, a startup that addresses the pressing need to lower the cost and increase the performance of artificial intelligence, ?developed its low power, high performance chip that runs computer vision and AI algorithms with high performance.
The chip can be used for autonomous vehicles, security cameras, cybersecurity systems, robotics, and data centers. It aims to make AI more affordable and integrated into mainstream applications. and media science.

Shuichi Takadawas engaged in computer graphics technology development at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (1989-1999). He was in charge of image processing circuits for game machines, TVs, videos, etc. in the R&D department. Engaged in mobile phone system LSI development at Semiconductor Division. He was responsible for concept design, overall architecture planning, and logical design(1999-2011). Takada established ArchiTek Corporation appointed as Representative Director and CTO in 2011. Since then he has been focusing on image processing, aiming to develop the world’s highest level IP (Intellectual Property).

Quan Nguyen-hung is specialized in Logic and RTL design. He writes in Verilog HDL, SystemVerilog, SystemC, Perl, C-shell, Tcl. He designed silicon proven UART, CAN, SRAM/Flash controller, SDRAM controller, SSPI, privite data encryption of HF RFID Tag chip, the authentication algorithm and memory management of UHF RFID Tag chip, digital interface of ROM chip, digital interface of ADC chip, Error/ECC controller. He also has FPGA implementation designs: DES, AES encryption, JTAG/debugger of 8-bit MCU.

The University of Tsukuba was established in October 1973, due to the relocation of its antecedent to the Tsukuba area. The university’s history dates back to its founding as a Normal School in 1872. As the new concept comprehensive university in Japan to be established under a country-wide university reform plan, the University has featured “Openness” with “New Systems for Education and Research.” The university reform plays a major role in our continuing effort for improvement. We are striving to achieve a unique, active, and internationally competitive university with superlative education and research facilities.

Riadh Ben Abdelhamid received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) in 2010. Until 2015, he was an FPGA design and verification engineer in a large Europe-based avionics company contributing to the design of safety critical systems including a flight control system. Since 2015, he joined a synopsys validation team on their flagship FPGA emulation system ZEBU. In 2017, he was selected as a Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) recipient to study in Japan. As a result, he obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Tsukuba in March 2020. He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D candidate at the same university. His research interest includes many-core processor architectures and overlays, High-Performance Computing, reconfigurable accelerators as well as AI applications in VLSI design. He is also enthusiast about making his own many-core processor chip start-up.

The VNU University of Engineering and Technology is a member of Vietnam National University of Hanoi (VNU). The Faculty of Information Technology was established on February 11, 1995 at VNU University of Science and was re-established on September 9, 2004. Inheriting Faculty of earlier “Mathematics – Mechanics” (1960-1980) and later “Mathematics – Mechanics – Informatics” (1980-1995) and of the Institute of Informatics and Electronics (1990-1995) at the former University of Hanoi (from 1956). Every year, about 350 undergraduate students, 150 master students and 10 Ph.D. students are admitted to the faculty with the broad range of teaching programs. Faculty of Information Technology has collaborations in teaching and research with JAIST, Tohoku University (Japan), UNU-IIST, University of New South Wales, National University of Singapore, University of Twente, etc. The faculty carries out joint research projects with IBM, Mitani-Sangyo, NEC, Panasonic and Toshiba, Tinh Van Group, HiPT Group, FSoft and others.

Xuan-Tu Tran received a Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Grenoble INP (in collaboration with the CEA-LETI), France, in Micro Nano Electronics. Xuan-Tu Tran is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET), a member university of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU). More information: http://www.uet.vnu.edu.vn/~tutx

AIST Research Institute for Secure Systems (RISEC) was founded in 2012 inheriting former three research center to focus on protecting IT information assets in uses of cryptography in internet and cloud service, control system security to protect social infrastructures such as electricity, railways, water district from cyber attacks, countermeasures for IC cards, system design methodology to prevent errors injected at design stages and operational stages, and countermeasures to threats from future quantum computing technologies. Focus is on the technologies used in the real industries and society.

Akira Tsukamoto received the M.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University in the City of New York. He works at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). His main focusing area is software engineering on networks, operating systems, and system security, who enthusiastic on any kind of technical development and have worked on products based on Cell/B.E. and ARM.

The University of Electro-Communications holds a mission to aim for the creation and achievement of knowledge and skill to contribute to the sustainable development of humankind.

Trong-Thuc Hoang received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications and the M.S. degree in microelectronics from the University of Science – Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in information and network engineering with The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, and also a Research Assistant with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan.

Advanced SIMD architecture derived by applying RISC-V architecture

This presentation introduces an advanced Single-Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) -based RISC-V design in conjunction with tightly-connected many-core interconnect. The proposed concept, Dual-Instruction Multiple Data (DIMD), increases the efficiency of parallel computation, which can reduce calculation time dramatically compared to traditional SIMD. Compared to other ISAs, RISC-V ISA relieves the bottleneck of our parallel program implementation. The design concept, performance will be shown for FFT computation on the proposed DIMD architecture running on FPGA.

Yoshiki Yamaguchi is an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tsukuba in 2003. Then, he was a Research Scientist with the Yokohama Institute, RIKEN. Since 2005, he returned to join the faculty at the Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. Since 2011, he has been a Collaborative Fellow at the Center for Computational Science, University of Tsukuba. His research interests include reconfigurable architecture and systems for real-time applications and highly power-efficient computing. He is also interested in heterogeneous high-performance computing, including the fusion of FPGA, GPU, and CPUs.

ASA Microsystems, Inc. is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with R&D center in Yokohama, Japan. ASA’s patent-pending proprietary microarchitecture provides the highest performance RISC V processor with the lowest power and smallest size. ASA offers configurable low power RISC-V processors with custom accelerator engines and SoC for IoT and edge AI. All the cores and IPs are seamlessly migratable from FPGA to ASIC/SoC. We also offer custom emulation software for RTL verification and application software development at the same time.

Ashraful Islam is Co-Founder and CTO of ASA Microsystems Inc. Ashraful has 10+ years of experience in the processor, ASIC & SoC design, and Verification. He has graduated from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include microprocessors, Computer Architecture, low power multi-processing systems in the area of high computing applications.

In November 2019, Technology Research Association of Secure IoT Edge application based on RISC-V Open architecture (TRASIO) was incorporated to build an open security infrastructure. TRASIO’s members are Denso’s semiconductor design subsidiaries NSITEXE, Keio University, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), SECOM, and Hitachi. TRASIO aims to implement test research to white-box security hardware and software infrastructure technology by utilizing RISC-V open architecture.

Kuniyasu Suzaki received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer science from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and a Researcher of the Technology Research Association of Secure IoT Edge Application based on RISC-V Open Architecture (TRASIO). His research interests include security on CPU, operating systems, and hypervisor.

Alexander Kozlov is co-founder and CTO of CloudBEAR. Alexander has more than 15 years’ experience in developing software/hardware solutions based on FPGA and ASIC design. He has Master degree an EECS from Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University. He started his carrier as ASIC design engineer, then moved to algorithms and hardware architecture research. He has focused on microarchitecture/algorithms co-design in telecommunication and multimedia processing systems. Before CloudBEAR he held various engineering management positions in hardware companies.

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As the world’s 15th largest software company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether you’re a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com

Mitsuru Tomono received his Ph. D in 2007 from Nara Institute of Science and Technology. He has more than 2 years experiences as pre-sales application engineer of Synopsys processor solution for Synopsys ASIP Designer tool, ARC Processor family, and, especially, embedded vision processor for AI applications. He achieved many design requirements in collaboration with customers for automotive and embedded vision processing systems.

SH Consulting Group (Software Hardware Consulting Group) is a company that supports RISC-V software development and hardware development. We are developing AWS FreeRTOS WiFi client using RISC-V, AI software framework on RISC-V Linux, etc.

Shumpei Kawasaki co-founded SH Consulting in 2013. He specialized in the field of security for RISC-V FPGAs / SoCs. In 1990s, he co-developed CPUs and chipsets for Sega Saturn and Dreamcast video games. ARM adopted his “16-bit fixed-length instruction” invention for their monumentally successful “ARM7TDMI” and “ARM9TDMI.” In 2000s Shumpei led a development of a minimal operating system for Root of Trust chips used in network routers, 2-5G mobile handsets, and secure tokens in US.

YUXI TAN received the B.S. degree in the speciality of Electrical Engineering
and Automation from the Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2017.
He is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in the Engineering of
Computer Science at the University of Tsukuba. His research is about
high performance many-core architecture on FPGA.

The University of Electro-Communications Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory educates the design, implementation, and evaluation of hardware systems and VLSI, aims to design “system on chip” by integrating various information processing hardware, and develops a high-performance computational circuit realized with a small number of elements.

Cong-Kha Pham is a professor at the University of Electro-Communications is studying hardware system design implementation by FPGA and integrated circuits Recent projects include research on energy harvest power supply and low-power data-centric sensor network system utilizing it, development of long distance transmission / miniaturization equipment of sensor network by low power wireless, super low-voltage device project, research on memory-based information detection system, hardware implementation of hardware system by FPGA and integrated circuit, etc. Professor Pham is teaching many undergraduate and postgraduate students and has received numerous award for dissertation.